{"id":1367,"date":"2006-10-31T12:03:00","date_gmt":"2006-10-31T20:03:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/2006\/10\/31\/joke-of-the-day\/"},"modified":"2006-10-31T12:03:00","modified_gmt":"2006-10-31T20:03:00","slug":"joke-of-the-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/2006\/10\/31\/joke-of-the-day\/","title":{"rendered":"Joke of the Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From a co-worker&#8230;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>A passenger in a taxi leaned over to ask the driver a question and tapped him on the shoulder. The driver screamed, lost control of the cab, nearly hit a bus, drove up over the curb, and stopped just inches from a large plate glass window.<\/p>\n<p>For a few moments everything was silent in the cab, and then the still shaking driver said, &#8220;I&#8217;m sorry but you scared the daylights out of me.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The frightened passenger apologized to the driver and said he didn&#8217;t realize a mere tap on the shoulder could frighten him so much.<\/p>\n<p>The driver replied, &#8220;No, no, I&#8217;m sorry, it&#8217;s entirely my fault. Today is my first day driving a cab. I&#8217;ve been driving a hearse for the last 25 years.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Happy Halloween!<\/p>\n<p>~CKL<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From a co-worker&#8230; A passenger in a taxi leaned over to ask the driver a question and tapped him on the shoulder. The driver screamed, lost control of the cab, nearly hit a bus, drove up over the curb, and&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[1,133],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1367","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1367","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1367"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1367\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1367"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1367"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1367"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}